Stroszek is a somewhat timid German-Hungarian prone to drink too much who, together with a few friends, decides to start his life over in the U.S., in a small Wisconsin town.
Things by and large don't go well for him. Even so, he doesn't have a couple of thugs making his life miserable, as was the case back in Berlin. And the difficulties he encounters are in large part his own making. He moves to America almost on a whim, doesn't bother to learn or try to speak English, and makes some other mistakes, which I won't mention, insofar as they would be spoilers.
Yes, America can be rather hard on immigrants. But so can most any other place, I expect. Most of the things that befall Stroszek were avoidable; indeed, one is left with the feeling that instead of moving to America, he should have moved to another neighborhood of Berlin.
7/10
Things by and large don't go well for him. Even so, he doesn't have a couple of thugs making his life miserable, as was the case back in Berlin. And the difficulties he encounters are in large part his own making. He moves to America almost on a whim, doesn't bother to learn or try to speak English, and makes some other mistakes, which I won't mention, insofar as they would be spoilers.
Yes, America can be rather hard on immigrants. But so can most any other place, I expect. Most of the things that befall Stroszek were avoidable; indeed, one is left with the feeling that instead of moving to America, he should have moved to another neighborhood of Berlin.
7/10